Forward Deployed Engineer, Databricks AI
11+ years of experience
A hands-on engineer with 11+ years in data and AI who translates business needs into production solutions. Delivers enterprise AI on Databricks, from text-to-SQL agents and front ends to secure model access, deployment and performance tuning, working across business, engineering and platform teams to clear delivery blockers. Available on a contract basis through Instrovate, remote or on-site, subject to availability.
Where this consultant helps
- Genie and LLM-driven text-to-SQL analytics
- Model connectivity through AI Gateway and Amazon Bedrock, connecting agent-serving endpoints to foundation models and backend tools
- Secure enterprise AI: Unity Catalog permissions, endpoint access controls, OAuth and on-behalf-of identity
- Applications and services with React, Streamlit and FastAPI on Databricks Apps
- Deployment automation with Jenkins CI/CD
- Endpoint capacity and load testing (Locust, MLflow traces), diagnosing latency, throttling and queueing
- Cost and production readiness: semantic caching, endpoint sizing, scale-to-zero trade-offs
- Streaming analytics and MLOps on Azure and Databricks with Docker
Skills
AI and serving
- AI Gateway
- Amazon Bedrock
- Foundation models
- Model Serving
- Genie
- MLflow
- RAG
- LangGraph
Data and apps
- Unity Catalog
- Delta Lake
- Databricks Apps
- Python
- PySpark
- SQL
- React
- Streamlit
- FastAPI
Operations
- AWS
- Azure
- Jenkins
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- OAuth
- Locust
- Playwright
Industries
- Consumer brands
- Manufacturing
Typical engagements
- Forward deployed engineer on a Databricks AI programme
- Text-to-SQL and Genie delivery
- Endpoint load testing and performance tuning
- Secure model access and deployment automation
How to engage
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Consultant profile: FDE-002